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Doctor Who Recap: Hate to Burst Your Bubble


The Doctor learns a difficult lesson about saving people who maybe aren’t really worth saving.

Still, they’re both doing a lot better than this week’s main character, Lindy Pepper-Bean, who struggles to even move in a straight line without instructions from her Dot, a floating device that projects video feeds of friends in a Bubble around her head. Mostly, she’s a big fan of Ricky September, whose profile reads: “Subscribers: Everyone, Hobbies: You.” He dances, lip syncs, and just generally seems like someone the internet would declare its white boy of the month. Meanwhile, the Doctor has realized that the bugs are eating people in alphabetical order, and that they were created by a sentient Dot to punish them for the crime of … yapping too much, I guess.

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